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55 minutes ago, villa89 said:

I can see sterling leaving to be honest. I think he's run his course there. 

If he’s available we’ll be in for him. Not saying we have a hope of getting him, but we’ll try for sure

38 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

the 3rd one

we buy £200m worth of players to suit his system, its still shit, we ditch him and none of those players work with the next managers system and are too old and on too big wages to be sold

we're all dooooooomed

The only real difference between players for his system and not for his system is that there are no wingers involved for his system. He still needs to repair the CM, which is the same as any manager, and the players he's likely to be able to bring in to do that would still fit in a midfield that also has wingers. Modern football is 3 in the middle, so the difference is whether it's a narrow 3 ahead of that, or a wide 3. If performances don't pick up and he gets the boot, we shouldn't need major surgery for anyone who comes in thereafter, as they'd likely just need a couple of wingers

Just now, villa4europe said:

You mean brand grealish that's about to sign a record deal with gucci? 

Yup, I do. 12 months ago there were articles about him in women's magazines, he was the most exciting player in the premier league, there was blanket sports coverage in the UK and overseas about him. Now he's barely mentioned. The Gucci thing has probably been in the works for a while.

1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said:

Very often the brand is bigger than the talent, and that it not the fault of the player.

I would imagine brand Grealish has taken a bit of a hit overall this year tbh

Why are people so obsessed with wanting Buendia in CM? He’s a right winger playing out of position as a 10, and we want to push him even more out of position into CM?

2 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Read similar somewhere - had him listed as in £80k pw … 

Given that Davis is on 45k I wouldn’t be surprised

5 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I know that. Sometimes it's still poor, it depends on the acoustics of the room. Wouldn't have worked in this case anyway - the mixing desk was on the stage, over at one side. Go figure. 

That’ll be why it sounded crap then lol

44 minutes ago, Rds1983 said:

irregardless

irregardless

irregardless

irregardless

noooooooooooooooo

Random thought, but I'm really surprised that there doesn't exist software that will use historical match data from all the top 5 leagues from, say, the last 10 years, to identify the optimal position for every player on the pitch given every possible position of the ball, opposition, and teammates, whether in attack or defence

Something where basically you create the scenario by positioning the opposition and ball, sticking in the phase of play conditions, and then having it spit out where the mathematically sound best area for every one of your players to be is, as well as transitioning through the likely outcomes based on the opposition team and players

Obviously it'd potentially ruin the game, but given some of the tech they're using now, I'm amazed this isn't a thing yet

17 minutes ago, magnkarl said:

Surely even a small mavic is cheaper than putting a mirror reflex cannon into a drone? Why go to such lengths making something so crappy when the amateur market has better and cheaper gear?

Going to assume range is the answer to that

Just signed up, let's see if I can get out of the bottom 6 in the games that are left.

Filled out my preliminary predictions and apparently this how I figure the table will turn out:

27 minutes ago, VillaParkAvenue said:

If rumours are true, the midfield three next season could be Bissouma, McGinn, Ramsey.

Bissouma is a good player but I’m not sure about the composition of that trio. One runner, one fighter and one who is a bit of both. Is there enough ball playing skills?

Need to upgrade McGinn too IMO

One thing to note is that when I blocked a user, the first time it brings you to a new page that asks what content you want to block - make sure to actually tick what you want to block on there or they'll be blocked,  but none of their content will (so they won't be blocked at all, basically)

Just now, ender4 said:

haha, i was heading straight to the Gerrard thread to block the same user!

So not just me being irritated by that then

5 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Thank you!   I'm off to have fun pressing that button on the usual suspects!

Not sure who the usual suspects are just yet, but from my short time here I've reached my limit with some in particular basically posting "Gerrard is rubbish sack him" in basically every single active thread on the site for the past few weeks. Fine with that opinion, but shoehorning it into every single discussion becomes tiresome very quickly

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I'm not sure he's been that much better. He's certainly not better than Targett of last season.

If Targett of last season turned up this season we wouldn’t have Digne 

Hah very familiar with how the web works, just a bit surprised to see no mute/block function

Just now, Zatman said:

Has Digne been better? For 25 million and 80k a week more

Yeah, he has been better. That’s not saying much, but do you not remember us getting targeted (no pun intended) down our left game after game after game while Matty was playing? He was brilliant last year, but a pub player this year, for whatever reason

Just now, KAZZAM said:

He's already had one window to rectify that. Should've been top priority. 

Yeah coz signing good players is super easy, right?

2 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

How many times has he been an unused sub since January. There's your answer. I know Digne keeps getting injured an we have to use Young as a sub but he's third off the rank compared to Bailey and Bunedia so that shows you where he is in the pecking order.

Not sure anyone will pay what we signed him for so might have to be a season long loan.

In todays market he’s a bargain for what we paid for him

2 minutes ago, KAZZAM said:

For a former midfielder and supposed premier league great he really has no idea how to set up the midfield. 

And I mean if that isn't ringing huge alarm bells for any Villa fan then I don't know what else would. 

I’m not actually sure we have sufficient players to set up anything but a bottom 8 standard midfield. Several very good players, but we basically have 4 sides of a box - it’s useless without the other bits

14 minutes ago, StewieGriffin said:

The obvious solution is to reduce the size of the goals. 

I know this isnt the womens football thread, but its something that pisses me off...

The standard of goalkeeping is awful in general - there's never an admittance that a keeper should have saved a shot or held a cross under no pressure that's been floated in. Pundits are terrified to criticise mistakes/poor play. Male players get slaughtered, and I appreciate that the media spotlight is different, but there's a reluctance to admit what are glaringly poor players/errors.

I think reducing the size of the goals (and possibly the pitch, but that's a seperate debate) would make a huge difference. 

The reason they won’t do that is because it’s require separate gear for the women’s game, and most grassroots pitches etc wouldn’t be able to afford it. Having everything the same specs makes it more likely for the women’s game to remain accessible

When talking about Digne and Targett, people seem to forget how utterly inept Matty was for us this season. He was absolutely awful

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

If he stays away from Lactose and curries, and takes his vitamins more like. Lol

Sometimes you just want a milkshake